Conflict between background matching and social signalling in a colour-changing freshwater fish [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 The ability to change coloration allows animals to modify their patterning to suit a specific function. Many freshwater fishes, for example, can appear cryptic by altering the dispersion of melanin pigment in the skin to match the visual background ...
Jennifer L. Kelley +2 more
doaj +7 more sources
Background matching, disruptive coloration, and differential use of microhabitats in two neotropical grasshoppers with sexual dichromatism [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Cryptic coloration is an adaptative defensive mechanism against predators. Color patterns can become cryptic through background coloration‐matching and disruptive coloration.
Víctor Hugo Ramírez‐Delgado +1 more
doaj +2 more sources
Background matching through fast and reversible melanin-based pigmentation plasticity in tadpoles comes with morphological and antioxidant changes [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Facultative colour change is widespread in the animal kingdom, and has been documented in many distantly related amphibians. However, experimental data testing the extent of facultative colour change, and associated physiological and morphological ...
H. Christoph Liedtke +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
miMatch: a microbial metabolic background matching tool for mitigating host confounding in metagenomics research [PDF]
Gut MicrobesMetagenomic research faces a persistent challenge due to the low concordance across studies. While matching host confounders can mitigate the impact of individual differences, the influence of factors such as genetics, environment, and lifestyle habits ...
Lei Liu +9 more
doaj +2 more sources
Spatial and temporal variation in prey color patterns for background matching across a continuous heterogeneous environment [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 In heterogeneous habitats, camouflage via background matching can be challenging because visual characteristics can vary dramatically across small spatial scales.
Marleen Baling +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Background matching in the brown shrimp Crangon crangon: adaptive camouflage and behavioural-plasticity [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 A combination of burrowing behaviour and very efficient background matching makes the brown shrimp Crangon crangon almost invisible to potential predators and prey. This raises questions on how shrimp succeed in concealing themselves in the heterogeneous
Andjin Siegenthaler +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
Effects of Pinglu Canal Construction on Camouflage in Two Sesarmid Crab Species [PDF]
BiologyCanal construction activities alter the visual characteristics of natural habitats, which in turn impairs the camouflage effectiveness of resident animals.
Binyu Zhai +11 more
doaj +2 more sources
Camouflaging in a complex environment--octopuses use specific features of their surroundings for background matching. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Living under intense predation pressure, octopuses evolved an effective and impressive camouflaging ability that exploits features of their surroundings to enable them to "blend in." To achieve such background matching, an animal may use general ...
Noam Josef +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Enclosure Background Preferences Differ between Sexes and Color Morphs in the Gouldian Finch
Animals, 2023 Most wild animals camouflage well into their environment, providing protection from predators, whereas captive animals often contrast with their background. This can cause stress for the animal, which may perceive it as being exposed.
Robert I. Moise +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Scalable, Color‐Matched, Flexible Plasmonic Film for Visible–Infrared Compatible Camouflage
Advanced Science, 2023 The multispectral compatible infrared camouflage technology is implemented these days to counter the developing infrared detectors and detectors of other bands.
Yuqin Xiong +5 more
doaj +1 more source